A powerful earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, killing at least 227 people and injuring many others as several buildings collapsed, burying people under rubble
in the impoverished country.
The magnitude 7.2 earthquake’s epicenter was about 7.5 miles from the southern town of Saint-Louis du Sud, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake, which occurred at about 8:30 a.m. Haitian time, had a depth of 6.2 miles. “There is a lot of destruction. There are several dead,” said Jose Flecher, a local journalist in Les Cayes, a city of about 125,000 people about 20 miles from Saint-Louis du Sud. “The hospitals are overwhelmed. There are a lot of injured. People are gathering in the streets because they have heard there is a risk of a tsunami.”
Haiti’s Civil Protection agency said that at least 227 people had died, including 158 in the south of the country—and that hundreds more were injured or missing. Many people had been extracted from the rubble by first responders and civilians, the civil protection agency said in a message on Twitter. Hospitals continued to receive the wounded, it added.
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